re: Hardware seen/not seen
Friday, December 15, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
I had that happen a lot.
I had a cheapie CDRW that took a long, long, long time to warm up to read anything
and frequently I booted up and found Win98 had given up on it. That is, the BIOS
just acknowledges it's there, Win98 expects it to perform. But I don't think that's
your problem.
I also had problems with the settings in the hardware screen. That's Start >
Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manager . Check the settings for
CDROM and Hard Disk Controllers.
Then check the master/cable/slave jumper on the CD drive. Does that match what BIOS
setting is? Do you have it set for master on the jumper but set for slave in Hard
Disk Controllers?
I've done that, too. Recently. When I replaced my bad hard drive.
On Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 8:23 am, slimbobartlett wrote:
>I'm a first time user to this site and didn't find this any where so, I just replaced
>a bad hard drive and re-installed win 98se. system has a dvd and cd-rewriter with
>a floppy. the problem is the re-writer is listed in bios at start-up but the operating
>system does not see it. The drivers are there. The floppy is listed as drive a,
the
>harddrive as drive c, and the dvd as drive d, but it does not see drive e (the re-writer).
>I've talked to a couple of people and they have never heard of this one, soooo?????
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- Hardware seen/not seen (slimbobartlett: Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 8:23 am)
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